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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, July 17,1980
Social Gospel
TEARS -- Pope John Paul II wipes
a tear while listening to a speech
POPE’S VISIT
“One More Blessing
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BELEM, Brazil (NC) -
A man who has lived the
past 40 years as a leper
welcomed Pope John Paul
II to the Marituba
Leprosarium with the
assurance that the
pontiff’s visit was “one
more blessing” on the
facility.
The leper, Adalucio
Calado, was barely able to
complete his welcoming
remarks because he was
overcome by emotion and
broke into uncontrollable
weeping. But before he
was overcome, he told the
pope:
“This is a hospital
where pain and suffering
exist, but where also exist
faith, love and happiness.”
He said he referred to
the pope’s visit as “one
more” blessing “because
the blessings we have
received from God and
Jesus Christ have been
innumerable.”
Calado delivered his
remarks seated in a
wheelchair. He has lost
both legs and his nose to
leprosy.
After being overcome
by emotion, Calado was
wheeled off the platform.
The visit to the
leprosarium July 8 was
one of the pope’s first
stops in Belem, a
sweltering port city at the
mouth of the Amazon
River.
“When they meet for
the first time and want to
make friends, people
usually introduce
themselves,” the pope
said.
He introduced himself
as “the humble successor
of the Apostle Peter,
bishop of Rome and
pastor of the universal
church.”
“Like Peter, I accepted
being universal pastor of
the church, wanting to
know, love and serve all
the members of the flock
entrusted to me,” the
pope said.
“And you, who are
you?” the pope asked.
“For me you are first
of all human persons, rich
in an immense dignity that
being a person gives you,
each one rich in the
unique and unrepeatable
personal physiognomy
made by God.”
The pope reminded the
lepers, many of them
severely mutilated by the
disease, of Christ’s passion
and death on the cross and
His acceptance of His
suffering for the sake of
mankind.
“It is no different in
our lives,” he said.
“Sickness is truly a cross,
at times a very heavy
cross, a trial that God
permits in the life of a
person in the unfathom
able mystery of a design
that escapes our capacity
to understand.”
The pope urged the
lepers not to accept their
sufferings fatalistically,
but to offer them up for
humanity in imitation of
Christ and with the hope
of resurrection.
He also told them, “Do
not isolate yourselves
because of your
infirmities.”
He warmly praised
those who work with
lepers and took the
occasion to issue a general
appeal for solidarity with
the victims of the disease.
The Marituba
Leprosarium, which
houses some 600 lepers -
most of them in advanced
stages of the disease - is
largely the result of efforts
by a lay missionary, Dr.
Marcello Candia, and a
Brazilian doctor, Dr.
Chaves Rodriguez.
The colony provides
social rehabilitation and
education as well as
medical care. It seeks to
reintegrate lepers into the
broader community,
which still overwhelmingly
considers lepers outcasts.
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with the pope.
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poor, the pope spoke
about their dignity and
their right to life’s
necessities.
When he spoke to
leaders in all sectors of
Brazil’s society, he warned
them to carry out urgent
social reforms to guarantee
those rights to the poor.
In Teresina July 8, in a
poverty-ridden and
drought-stricken area, he
called on the rich and
powerful to “take up -
fully, unreservedly and
irrevocably -- the cause of
your brothers who are
trapped in poverty.”
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pope strongly backed
social activist archbishops
who have repeatedly been
under fire for their open
challenges to government
policies and programs.
In Sao Paulo he backed
Cardinal Paulo Evaristo
Arns, who recently played
a major role in helping an
autoworkers’ strike that
the government tried to
su press.
In the city’s huge
soccer stadium, the pope
appeared with the cardinal
July 3 before 150,000
workers and firmly
expounded church
teachings on workers’
rights, including the right
to form unions and
participate in decisions
affecting their livelihood.
Four days and five
cities later, the pontiff
warmly embraced
Archbishop fielder Camara
of Recifie and called for
“Kisser” Succeeds
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MANAUS, Brazil (NC) - A man known throughout
Brazil as “The Kisser,” thwarted in his first attempt to
kiss the feet of Pope John Paul II, succeeded two days
later at a Mass at Manaus in the Amazon region of Brazil.
The man, Jose Moura, is an eccentric who delights in
kissing celebrities.
On July 9 during a song and dance show presented for
Pope John Paul at Castelao Stadium in Fortaleza, Moura
leaped onto the stage where the pope was seated and ran
towards him. Security men tackled him before he reached
the pope and dragged him away.
But on July 11 he outwitted police security, leaped
onto a raised platform holding the altar at the Mass in
Manaus, and fell at the pope’s feet.
Fortaleza and Manaus are about 1,400 miles apart.
Moura, a taxi driver, hugged singer Frank Sinatra
during a performance in Rio de Janeiro earlier this year.
He claims to have kissed most of Brazil’s celebrities,
including soccer star Pele.
Youth Welcome Pope
have less,” he added.
‘‘Only true love
builds,” he said.
“Only love brings
together what is different
and produces a union in
diversity,” the pope said.
The pontiff praised the
desire of young people to
combat injustice.
“Open to the social
dimension of man, you
cannot hide your desire to
change radically the
structures that seem to
you unjust in society,” he
said.
Pope John Paul then
gave a summary of how
he, as a youth during
World War II, came to
accept Christ’s teachings as
providing the key to
solving social injustices.
“In my youth, I myself
lived these convictions. I
declaimed them as a young
student, through literature
and through art,” he said
referring to his poetry and
his days as a young actor.
BELO HORIZONTE,
Brazil (NC) -- The
enthusiasm of Brazilian
youths met the warm
personality of Pope John
Paul II July 1 in the
mining city of Belo
Horizonte.
The result was a Mass
for youth in which the
pope’s homily was
frequently interrupted by
applause ^and included a
20-minute period in which
he was prevented from
continuing his sermon
because of the shouts and
chants of the crowd.
The enthusiasm
accompanied a strong
papal plea for achieving
justice through love.
Alluding to Marxism, the
pope asked the young
people to avoid ideologies,
based on violence, hate
and class warfare. He also
warned them against being
seduced by a consumer
society which stresses
attaining an overabun
dance of material goods as
the goal of humanity.
The crowd greeted the
criticisms of Marxism and
the consumer society with
about equal applause.
“A young Christian
ceases to be young, and
certainly, is not a Christian
when he lets himself be
seduced by doctrines or
ideologies that preach
violence or hate.” he said.
“It is indispensible to
know how to conquer the
temptation of the so-called
consumer society, of the
ambition to have always
more, instead of trying to
be more, of the ambition
to have more while others
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“God wanted them to
receive their baptism of
fire in a w'ar the atrocities
of which did not spare my
home. I saw these
convictions trampled on in
so many ways. I feared for
them exposed to the
storm,” said the pope.
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face them with Jesus
Christ: I thought that He
was the only one to reveal
to me their true content
and to protect them
against being ravaged by
the unknown,” he said.
‘‘All this was a
tremendous and valuable
experience. It taught me
that social justice is only
true when based on the
rights of the individual,”
added the pope. £
MANAUS, Brazil (NC) - Indian
leaders were firm. They would not
dance for Pope John Paul II.
Instead, they wanted a regular
meeting so they could explain their
problems.
They got what they wanted, and
when Pope John Paul II met with 18
chiefs representing 58 Indian nations on
July 10 he saw no dancing.
Instead, he listened to a series of
criticisms of government policies and
then appealed to the government to be
attentive to the Indians’ plight.
At the meeting, thp Indians gave the
pope a series of documents outlining
their complaints. One document listed
15 government officials and leaders of
political parties as the “15 worst
enemies of the Indians.”
“Our lands are invaded. Our lands are
taken,” said Lino Pereira Cordeiro of
the Satare-Maue tribe in a short speech
to the pope.
“Brazil was not discovered in 1500.
It was taken from the Indians,” he
added.
Pereira gave the pope a letter from
his tribe.
“We are massacred, exploited,” the
letter said.
“Many times our brothers are killed
for defending their lands,” it added.
“Your Holiness, because you are a
minister of the Catholic Church, we
want you to know that in a Catholic
country such as Brazil, these major
problems have been occurring since its
discovery,” it said.
Another letter, signed by 90 Indian
chiefs, said the extermination of Indians
in Brazil “is comparable to the massacre
of the Polish and Jewish people by Nazi
imperialism and racism.”
In the past 400 years, the Indian
population has gone from 5 million to
barely 210,000, the letter said.
After Pereira spoke, the pope asked
him if he had a written copy of his
speech. Pereira then gave the pope a
bound series of documents.
After receiving gifts from the chiefs,
the pope asked government authorities
to “recognize the right” of Indians “to
live in peace and serenity without fear
and without the real nightmare of being
thrown off their lands to benefit
others.”
The pope was referring to Indian
criticism that the government is
expelling them from their traditional
lands to make way for agribusiness and
industrial complexes and huge energy
producing plants.
...But Cruised The River
MANAUS, Brazil (NC) - The
Amazon River and Rio Negro had never
seen anything like it.
More than 300 barges, ferries and
assorted river boats were chasing five
Brazilian river patrol boats, shooting off
fireworks and flying streamers off every
available pole.
It was Pope John Paul II’s last day in
Brazil July 11, and he was leading the
traditional St. Peter’s day procession
and blessing of boats down the Rio
Negro to its juncture with the Amazon,
then back up to Manaus.
The blessing had been delayed two
weeks from its normal date of June 29
so that the successor of the patron saint
of fishermen could lead the fleet.
Earlier in the day, before an outdoor
Mass crowd that numbered well over a
quarter million, the pope strongly
praised the many missionaries who work
in the steaming, equatorial Amazon
valley, where the nearest major city to
Manaus is 500 miles away.
An American Redemptorist
missionary in Manaus, Father Donnell
Kirchner from Omaha, Neb., told NC
News of one missionary friend who
spends almost all his life on the Amazon
and its tributaries, boating to some 200
chapels along the rivers every year.
The night before, another, far less
savory side of life in the Amazon valley
was revealed.
On the balcony of the archbishop’s
house, before a large crowd, the pope
listened as one after another
representative of the Amazon Indian
tribes told of land theft, murder and
massacre by invading non-Indian
settlers.
“Our lands are being taken away
from us illegally,” one Indian leader
said. “Our leaders are murdered . . . Our
people are massacred.”
“Unfortunately, almost all of what
they were saying is true,” Father
Kirchner said the next day. He said
failures by the Brazilian government are
at least partly to blame.
For the boat procession down the
Rio Negro, a two-mile wide, more than
300-feet deep river were the Amazon
valley’s dreaded piranha are now in
spawning season, the pontiff was
installed on the top deck of the
210-foot Pedro Teixeira, one of a fleet
of five Brazilian naval river patrol boats
brought together in Manaus for the
occasion.
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